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The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
JAMES G.. BLAINE.
What n Member OF the Republican National
C"umittee Says-He Does Not Think Mr..
Blame Would Decline IA Henomina Ion
Though He Would Not Struggle for 1t.
From ne Phi!adelDhia Ledacc.

From the Rtiiadslphia Ledge.-.
New YORK, Dec. 5th.-J. Manchester
HAYNES the Maine member Of the Nation
al Repu blcar Committee was at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel today. He says he is in
favor Of holding the convention in the
East, preferable in New York. There
is feeling. however, ne said, "smong
many of Mr.. Blaine's friends and sup
pnrters that perhaps lis interests will be
better served if the convention is held in
a certain lNcality'
''Do you mean Chicago?" he was asked
"Weli, not far from Chicago"
He does not think the National Com
miitee will consider the interests Of any
candidate in selecting the place for the
next convention. 1t will be governed
entirely by what is best for the party
Il do not think" he says, that Mr
Blaine would decline denomination, but
he is not in a position to make fight for
it. I mean he would feel some delicacy
about taking such a course. Mr.. Blaine
made contest for the nomination in 1876
md in 1880 In 1854 he was again can
ddate and won, out was defeated at the
polls. H. feels tha il he runs again the
nomination must come to him without
struggle nave no doubt that Mr.. Blaine
would feel highly compfmented to receivs
the unanimous nomination OF the R"pub-
Gcan convention next year. II would be
an expression by the party that our defeat
in 1854 was due to other causes and not
10 Mr.. Blaine | think Mr.. Blaine will
return before June, but | have no idea
that he will come back by way OF san
Francisco, as has been rumored. Ho has
said nothing about it to any one that |
know of. MIR. Blaine may, of course, re-
turn that way, but, as | said. think it
very doubtful Mr.. Blaine is not a very
good sailor, aud he is not fond enough of
the water to undertake the long sail
through the Suez Canal and across the
Indian Ocean and Pacific for pleasure.
When he gets ready he will probably
come the shortest way home"
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

THAT conservative journal the Phila-
delphia Ledger is very outspoken ID
its opposition to President Cleveland S
plan Of reducing the surplus in the
Treasury, by attacking the tariff on i'm
ports, instead of abollshing the system
OF internal revenue taxation, which is
essentially war system and not needed
in times of peace. at is almost in
conceivable, it says, "that a man of
the usual solid sense and general good
Judgment Of Mr.. Cleveland could have
written in such strain in State paper
that is to take permanent place among
the archives OF the country; yet there
in the message are the extravagant
statements and the forced phrases just
quoted, which express his two theses.
To quote them is to give the keynote
of the argument brought forward to
sustain them. The readers of the
Ledger will hardly expect this journal
to 90 into detailed discussion of state
ments coucned in such terms. They
know that the country was not last
summer, and is not now, in situation
"presaging financial colrvulsion and
widespread disaster )" and they know
that there are more ways than one of
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided in the notorious
Virginia coupon cases that the State
cannot be proceeded against without its
own consent for refusing to honor its
own obligations in payment of taxes.
In view of this apparent evasion Of the
States financial responsibilities, what is
to prevent any other State from nego
tiating loans and issuing coupons, and
then when the State obligations mature,
repudiate them by refusing its con-
sent to honor its own indebtedness
incurred in good faith, and SO recog-
nized by the holders of its obligations3
1t would seem that the whole matter of
State credit would rest in the hands Of
a few State officials, who if they hap
pened to be unscrupulous men, could
plead as precedent for reputation of
honest State obligations the precedent
just set in the Virginia cases. To laynen
it looks like dangerous decision.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

ALTHOUGH President Clev veland's first
message to the Fiftieth Congress is a
short one, yet the effect of it will be to
stir the country from the centre to the
circumference, simply because 1t cannot
be interpreted as any thing short Of an
indirect assault upon the manufacturing
industries of the country. 1t is a
noticeable document in many respects,
its plain, unpretentious, and outspoken
language being its not least conspicuous
feature. 1t undoubtedly will be the
subject OF very pronounced attack, sim
ply because it can be fairly accepted as
an authoritative declaration Of the atti-
tude of the Democratic party upon the
subject of protection, and foreshadows
the political platform OF 1888, on which
Mr.. Cleveland hopes to secure a re-
election to the Presidency. However
justly the party to which Mr.. Cleveland
belongs may be accused of lodging the
free trade issue, he at least cannot be
charged with duplicity on this import
ant issue, Stree his outspoken advocacy
of tariff for revenue only places his
party where it properly and consistently
belongs-on free trade platform. We
do not see that Republicans have any
Just cause to complain of the Presidents
honesty and frankness in fixing the
position OF his party in the next presi-
dental campaign. He has simply
recognized the eternal fitness Of things
in placing himself upon the platform
most acceptable to the greatest number
of those who constitute the party by
which he expects to be renominated for
the Presidency, and in doing 50 has
simply defined the issue between them
and the Republicans. As Republicans,
we believe that truly protective policy
is the necessary condition for the pros
perity and welfare of this country: not
merely for its manufacturing classes
but as well for the farmer, the merchant,
and every industrial class. While
Republicans as general rule believe
in the doctrine of protection of Ameri-
can industries, their Democratic oppo-
ncnts have almost as unanimously held
free trade theories and ideas. The
Presidents message will precipitate the
issue, and 1t may be reasonably assumed
that it will be warmly discussed in 1888.
We very readily recall how in the Presi-
dental contest of 1880 the State of
Indiana was saved to the Republicans
by the precipitation of the issue of pro
lection in that State and that, too, late
in the campaign of that year. In fact,
up to August, 1880, the drift of public
sentiment was decidedly in favor of
General Hancock, the Democratic
nominee for the Presidency. Our read
ers will remember that in the Rcpubli-
can National Convention of that year,
held at Chicago, there had been warm
contest between the friends of General
Grant and Mr.. Blaine for the presiden-
tial nomination, and that the candidacy
of General Garfield was altogether unex-
pected, and was the result of a COM
premise between the friends and adher
ents of the two more prominent Candi-
dates. Like all othrr compromise
nominations, Gen. Garfield's was at the
moment disappointment to both sides
and did not excite the popular enthusi.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

REFERRING to the license of speech
allowed Anarchists in this county, one
of our exchanges very truthfully says
that man who sets up as a revolu-
tionist in his native country, can plead
that he did not choose the place of his
birth, and that he has no choice but to
revolt against oppression that has
become lntolerable. But a man who
deliberately adopts country of which
he is not a native, applies for citizen
ship IN it, and makes use of his citizen
ship to disturb the peace and attack
the institutions OF the nation that has
received and naturalized him, is wan
ton and a pestilent scoundrel for whom
there is no excuse to be made. The
Americans are very patient people,
but the limit of their federation for for
eign mischief makers is very nearly
reached.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
Mr.. Blaine on the Message.

As President Cleveland in his mes
sage sounds the Democratic key note
of the campaign of 1883, SO Mr.. Blaine
in his timely comment Oh 1t, voices sub
stantially the opinions of the great body
of Republicans on an important ques-
ticn of governmental policy.
Mr.. Blaine's views will be received
by the country with profound attention,
not only because they are those of the
most popular American statesman, but
because they are thoroughly American
He calls particular attention to the
qualification entertained in England, at
the prospect of our system of protec-
tion of American industries being broken
down for the benefit of British manu-
facturers, and which prospect the PIesi-
dents message encourages. Mr..
Blaine's opinions as to the disposition
of the treasury surplus are wise and
statesmanIike.
He would abolish the internalrevcnue
tax on tobacco and make that commo-
dity free along with corn and wheat.
The whisky tax he would apply to the
building of fortifications on our sea-
coast, and in this connection he forci
bly, refers to the absolutely dcfenscless
condition of every harbor on the shores
of the Atlantic and Pacific. He opposes
the removal of the tax on whisky
because there is moral side to it.
With whisky reduced to twenty cents a
gallon he rightly concludes that there
would be an enormous increase in the
consumption, and proportionate in
crease of crime, immortality and
poverty.
In discussing the subject of trade
Mr.. Blaine alludes to the foreign treat
ises upon political economy as being
totally inapplicable the United States,
fact which the free trade and low
tariff theorists on this side of the water
have apparently never realized. He
points out that our present unprece-
dented prosperity is due, firstly, to our
protection from foreign competition,
ar !, secondly, to the free trade that
exists between our thirty eight states
and our territories, with their sixty mil
hons of people.
In the short space Of a newspaper
interview MIR. Blaine could do no more
than outline his views as to the effect
which the adoption OF those of Mr.
Cleveland would have upon the country.
but he has performed his task well. He
shows conClusively that the United
States is not y>t ready to abandon that
system of protection which has made
this nation the most prosperous on
earth
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

asm that the nomination of either of the
other candidates would have excited.
This apparently apathetic condition of
the Republicans very naturally excited
the hopes of the Democrats, only to
disappoint them. All through the
months of June, July and August, SO
far as the general drift of public senti-
ment indicated it. the probabilities
seemed to favor General Hancock S
election. But indiana held a State
election in October, and was a doubt
full State Both sides looked for victory
there as a fOrerunncr of success in
November following. Knowing that
the manufacturing industries of that
State were growing into Importance,
the Republicans wisely made the pro
lection of American industries their
campaign issue with the local free
trade Q0e7,1UaiIrS, and won the State
1t is matter of history that that result
turned back the current of opinion
which had been running SO steadily
towards General Hancock election,
and which his own subsequent unfortu-
nate utterances on that question SO
quickly changed to defeat.
We refer to this little bit of history
simply to signify our belief that the
issue now precipltated by President
Cleveland. and whose position is sub
stantially that held by the Democrats
of Indiana in 1880, can be as success
fully met by the friends of American
industries in 1888, as it was in Indiana
seven years ago. AS campaign doc
ument for free traders next year the
Presidents message is undoubtedly
admirable, but we doubs indeed whether
it will be acceptable even in the South,
where manufacturing and industrial
interests have recently been making
rapid strides forward.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
titzenher

HOLIDAY GOODS.
Every departmentfilledwi with
new stock this week.
Imported novelties in Milli-
merry.
Cloaking Astrican, 54-inch,
at $500; worth $3.50.
Heavy Silk Plush, IS-inch,
90 cents.
Silk velvet, 81 cents.
Satins only IS cents.
All the new Bric-a-Brac
Wares, Vases, Jardenaires,
Card Receivers, &c.
A table full of the lovely
things.
Toilet Sets, Dressing Cases,
Showing Cases, Whisk Hold
ers, &c.
Dolls-Crying dolls, talking
dolls, bottle dolls, patent dolls,
all kinds of dolls.
Big bargains in Handker-
chiefs s-Ladies', Gents &
Children's Silk and Linen.
Novelties for making up
Christmas Gifts, Brass Orna-
ments, thousands of designs.
Orders taken for all kinds OF
Fancy Work.
Christmas tree decorations.
Everything new and at the
lowest prices at
Mrs. l.. II. LITzENBERG'S,
Elkton, Maryland.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

The doctrine of State sovereignty,
only one phase of which was involved
in or settled by the war, comes in very
handy now to sustain the prohibition
law of Kansas. The Supreme Court
of the United States declares that the
prohibition law of that State is not un-
constitutional, though it makes no provl-
sion for compensation to brewers whose
business is broken up. The State has
a right to regulate its internal concerns
and to abate what its constituted
authorities declare to be nuisance.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

any dangerous accumula
ton or excess of money in the Federal
rr"asury. They are aware that last
summer .here were men diligently at
work trying 10 get up panic for the
purpose of procuring the intervention
of the officers of the Federal Govern
ment, but ssgaclous, solid, experienced
men in financial affairs felt no such
'alarm" at that time and do not now.
They are aware also that If Congress
had done Its duty in the way of pro-
viding for what Samuel . lilden graph
ically and truly described as the "de
fenCelcsS condition of our coasts )" If
it had provided establishments for man
ufacturing the armor plates and the
heavy ordnance the country needs for
Its own protection ; if 1t had devoted
sufficient money to put upon the sea
fleet of thirty to fifty swift cruisers that
would have made the American navy
respected, instead of a shame and re
proach ; if they had in word done the
things for the common defense and
general welfare that have already been
postponed far too long, there would
have been much less of surplus to
be used as makeshift for an assault
upon the manufacturing industries OF
the country. They are some OF the
things which the people of the country
do know, and they are to be placed as
offset to the things they do not know.
although they see such alarming C
counts of them set forth in the mes.
sage. And they likewise know that if
the leaders of that school of economists
into whose ranks the President seems
to have rushed headlong really believed
that the surplus was 'fraught with
danger" and peril to the county,"
'presaging financial convu,sion and
widespread disaster" they would not
put off relief from session to session
and from year to year, obstinately in
sisting that the one only way to stop
the surplus and avert such dangers,
perils, convulsions and disasters is to
revise "thc vicious, inequitable and
illogical tariff )" but they would seize
instantly upon the plainest, stralghtest,
surest means and abolish the internal
taxes, which never before were con-
tinued in time of peace. What sort Of
patriot would he be-what sort of ad-
wiser is the President, who, seeing the
country in imminent danger of "tinan-
cial convulsion" and widespread dis
aster'-halts for months and years to
consider whether that ruin which could
be instantly and certainly prevented by
taking off the internal taxes shall be
precipitated upon the country unless
Congress agrees to reduce the duties
on sugar, iron, cotton and woollen
goods? Certainly Mr.. Cleveland could
never have contemplated putting the
President of the United States in a
corner like that Who can escape the
belief that that frantic cry about ''tl-
nancial convulsions" presaglng wide
spread disaster" which has been given
to the President by the tariff reviserS
is an unnitisated sham1 They don t
believe 1t they can't believe it ; or the
internal taxes wouldn't rest another
day without bill to abolish them beng
put on swift passage through the House
of Representatives Mr.. Carlisle's ad-
herents are patriotic enough at least
for that. They have deiuded and en-
trapped the President and put him, as
we'll as themselves, in most absurd
position"
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
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EEkTON, DECEMBER 10, 1887.

The Republican National Committee
met on Thursday in Washington, and
selected Chicago as the place, and
June 10Th, 1888, as the time for the
meeting of the next Republican Natlo-
nal Convention.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
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Cleanfast Black Hose

The only perfect black hose manufactured
for Ladies', misses, boys and children. A Is0
bali hose for men prices Zoe, Toe, 81 90 and
upwards. If srut by mail 3 cents per pair,
extra tor postage. Oehm's Acme Hatli,
Is tItimore's largest c,Othing and furnishing
house West baltimore street, one door from
Charles.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
Christmas Goods

Mrs. Anna Wilkinson calls attention to
her fine line of winter millinery goods, no.
tions, novelties, fancy Christmas decora-
lions, patterns, dress forms, and all goods
usually found in a ladies bazar. Furs reno.
waited, and remanufactured In any shape, or
style of trimming Nl9-tJ1.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
The New chesapeake backing Suit.

A splendid suit designed specially for
sportsmen has just been introduced by
Oehm'l Acme Hall Baltmore's largest
clothing house 1t is made Of u cloth manu-
factured purpose, dyed the right color
and of the exact weight required. The prices
are SO sl2 and $50 according To quality,
and they can he obtained only at the above
house w. Baltimore street one door from
Charles
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

A new Cloaking. Heavy
weight, solid fur back. Six
quiet stripes and 4 modest
plaids. 81 inches, 81. Your
eyes and finger tips tell you it
is extra good for the money.
% ounces to the yard, the
maker says. We haven't
weighed it, but it looks every
ounce of that. "A Cloaking
that will stand grief.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

Hail. Friend all
Floor
all
The Visitor then taken through the building which
basement
hydraulic used dozen different and ep place covered
and
floor will find themselves surrounded with everything
in manufactured right
second located the Boys
York.
full of Novel
order third floor will be
fourth the
of cloth the
enables unierl all
bu ito
OEHM'S ACME HALL,
n Furnishing
BALTIMORE ST. ONE Door WEST
BALTIMORE MD.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
Notice to Trespassers and Gunners.

All persons are hereby warned not to trcsnass
IN the farm of Mrs. Retecca Glendeniu with dog
or gun under the penalty Of the law.
JAS. L. ENDENIN,
Oct. lb-tf. Agent.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10

\ Dress Pattern gift is a
little more presentable in a box
than in a bundle. The neater
the box the more presentable.
The trimmest, neatest boxes
we have ever put Dress Pat
terms in are on some of the
counters to-day. Half a dozen
tints. Box and pattern (S
yards), from 81 to $40.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
tBanamaaer's.
PHILADELPHIA. Monday, Dec. 5, 1857.

\li q otii aiiioiiS quiz allu
Piano Covers. Prices have
been tumbling a little. Hardly
the time you look for such a
happening Christmas three
weeks away and these just the
welcomest, cheerfulest things
to sunshine a room with.
Rich French Tapestry Ga
Covers, colors quiet as those.
of frost-touched leaves, s. and
$3.50; originally $3.50 and
$3.50.
Very heavy French Silk Noil
Petit Point Tapestry, long
knotted fringe. Luxurious,
shadow-scattering things; tints
of the Orient, $3.50 and S. for
81; have been So and $3.50.
Two patterns on grounds of
garnet blue
black ecru
Less pretentious, but almost
as pretty, Scotch Tapestry
Covers, Ga, IA, S-4, SxIo, and
SNI2, down 10 and IS per
cent.
Jute Velour. Nap SO stiff
and springy it won't mat un-
der pressure. As plushy as
plush-till you touch it. And
the colors! Blue and gold and
crimson are never bluer and
goldener and crimsoner than
in Jute Velour; and they stay
bright
Piana Covers, SKIP f., slo, from $40.
Table Covers O.. 1913
1inSel Stitched Table Covers, 81, from SIS.
Solid Tinse Border'd, 81 and $40, from s12.
Plush Table and Piano Cow
ers, vined and leaved and
lowered with gay embroidery,
SI5 up.
Plush Scarfs, So up.
Handsome Cloths, border
burdened with neat designs in
variegated silk
Table, 75c to IS.
Piano, $3.50 to 1880.
Chenille Covers, softly, silk
lily beautiful. Styles and styles
and styles.
Moquette Mats after the
fashion of Oriental saddlebags
-tringed round with braided
tails every couple of inches;
22H inches square inside of
fringe, $3.50, $3.50.
Lots and lots of covers that
we haven't had a peep at. And
we have hardly stirred from
our tracks in one corner of the
long, wide Upholstery Gallery.
-Four Suitings that stand for
long, heaped counters full Of
the medium-priced Dress
Goods:
Mixed Tricot; the downy
fuzz Of fine wool on its buck
skinny face. Full 81 in. 10
colors. 75c, from 81.
5o-in. sllk-and-wool cluster
line Plaid. A ST stuff for
81 &c. Sprinkled with bright
specks of silk and a glance of
silk in the plaid threads, S
colors.
All-wool Pin Check. Mod
est, quiet. 10 colors. 81 in.,
75c.
5o-in. all-wool Mixture. Jum-
bled checks spattered and
dashed by bits of color that
dodge in and out like sunbeams
on dewdrops. 75c.
We stand behind every Seal
Skin Cloth garment we send
out-the cloth, the making, the
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
Holiday Excursion Tickets on the Penn

syIvania Railroad.
In pursuance of the usual custom, the
Penns, lvania Railroad Company will sell
Christmas and New Year excursion tick
cts between all ticket stations on It's
main line and branches at reduced rates.
The tickets will be sold on December
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1887, and January lst and 2d 1883, good
FOR return trip until JanuarJ 81, 1883,
inclusive.
These tickets will enable the public to
visit friends aud enjoy the social pleas
ures Of the glad season at tritlIng ex
pense for railway fare
The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
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